If it's true with those new updates that the guy - who evidently is a few years older than McKenna - was waiting outside the bar specifically to start s*** with him after being kicked out, that completely changes things.
I'm not and have never been a fighter and I generally choose the peaceful option if at all possible, but if I was in the same situation as McKenna and left the bar only to find the guy waiting for me, I know I'd be on the defensive immediately and worried about having to defend myself or whether or not this guy was going to try to attack me at any given moment.
In that situation, you're in full fight-or-flight mode and while that may not fully excuse throwing the first punch, it clarifies the context of things and makes the other guy sure seem like the instigator of everything. I would say it makes McKenna's actions more justifiable than if he would have punched him just for jaw-jacking in the bar and insulting his mother.
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